DISASTROUS FIRE
SMOKE PALL OVER STATE,
(Australian Press Association)
(United Service.)
SYDNEY, January 9,
The sweltering heat and fierce hot wind to-day was responsible for more disastrous bush and scrub fires in the metropolitan area, as well as in the country.
Several suburban houses were destroyed at St. Ives, Auburn, and fowl sheds. Thousands of fowls are dead, and suburban gardens ruined. Vegetable crops are spoiled. Scrub around Katoomba is afire for miles. The majority of citizens are doing their best to protect a petrol depot containing 40,000 gallons of spirit. Many fences and week-end cottages along the coast have been burned. Reports from country districts state that Braidwood and Adelong are completely surrounded by flames. A sawmill was gutted at Tenterfield.
The smoke pall over the State is intensifying the discomfiture of citizens. The weather bureau sees no sign of relief from the existing insufferable conditions.
The beaches are naturally uncomfortably overcrowded with bathers. Competitors at a country tennis carnival to-day include many girls, who, owing to the heat, discarded their stockings.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 3
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173DISASTROUS FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 3
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